Man severs arm with homemade guillotine

A US man has been hospitalized after severing his arm in a homemade guillotine.

Professionals at a urology clinic in Bellingham, Washington contacted police on Thursday (October 27) after the man showed that his right arm had been sliced off above the elbow.

Police told The Bellingham Herald that officers searched the area surrounding the clinic for the severed limb, eventually discovering it at a transient camp along with an elaborate handcrafted guillotine.

The appendage was sent to a medical center in Seattle, to which the man had been airlifted, in the hope that it could be reattached.

The unidentified patient is currently believed to be in a serious condition in an intensive care unit.

Authorities believe that the injury was self-inflicted and that the man himself is also a transient.